Universities are in a race against time to address transformation on campuses.

Higher-education and race-relations experts have warned that failure to do so will allow tension between students of different races to deepen.

They made the warning as racial issues at Stellenbosch University brought its management before the parliamentary portfolio committee on higher education on Tuesday and students at an agricultural college near the town turned on each other.

Students from several tertiary institutions marched through the Western Cape town protesting against the university’s language policy and lack of transformation. Lindani Mhkwanazi from the University of the Western Cape said he was at the march to “disrupt white privilege“.